The Web, HTML & JavaScript - Introduction & Hyperlinks

Question 1

What is the Internet?

Answer 1

The Internet is a worldwide network of computers which allows us to communicate with one another to share information

Question 2

What is the World Wide Web?

Answer 2

An information system on the Internet that allows documents to be connected to other documents by hyperlinks

Question 3

What is a Web Browser?

Answer 3

A program that helps you to navigate the World Wide Web

Question 4

What is a Search Engine?

Answer 4

It is used to look for web pages

Question 5

What is a Uniform Resource Locator?

Answer 5

It uniquely identifies a web page

Question 6

What is HyperText Markup Language?

Answer 6

The language that is used to create web pages

Question 7

What is HyperText Transfer Protocol?

Answer 7

This is used to transport web pages over the Internet

Question 8

What navigation features are often used in Web Browsers? (3)

Answer 8

Back, Forward and Home buttons

Question 9

Why are hyperlinks used?

Answer 9

To prevent the need to type in a URL each time you want to access a particular web page

Question 10

What is an Internal hyperlink? What is an External hyperlink?

Answer 10

• Internal hyperlinks move the user to another web page within the same web site
• External hyperlinks move the user to another web page not within the same web site

Question 11

What is a Relative address? What is an Absolute address?

Answer 11

• A Relative address will only include partial information on the resource being accessed
• An Absolute address will include the full address of the remote resource